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three, two, one! >> welcome to the dawn of a new year and a new decade as we sweep up the confetti and streamers, we'll look back at the old year's memorable moments from the hudson river to capitol hill. we'll recall the extraordinary folks we met and the legends we lost, and we'll share our hopes for the year ahead, and some sure to be broken resolutions. "early" this new year's morning january 1st, 2010. captioning funded by cbs good morning, and happy new year everybody. i'm harry smith, along with dr.
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debbye turner-bell, dave price, and russ mitchell. >> happy new year. >> happy new year guys. >> keep it down. >> keep it down. you have a bit of a headache? let me whisper this. as we celebrate the beginning of 2010 this morning, we're also looking back at some of the major news stories of 2009. >> we'll take a second look at some of the other stories that we remember best from this past year. >> we say this every year but it's hard to believe that 2009 just flew just like that. in a blink. huge story. >> in a flash. >> huge stories, though. >> yes. >> to think back to the beginning of the year and the history that was being made and the history that was made and the arguments that were had, and the economy and everything else my gosh what a year. especially as you get older, you don't have this yet. it goes like that. >> just like that. >> thank you. i know i look good for my age but i am older and it goes by like that. >> well we have much ahead this
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morning, but first, we want to check the news and weather on this new year's day. >> good morning, and happy new year to you. i'm seth jones. millions of americans stayed up late to ring in the new year. >> three, two, one! the biggest party was in new york's times square. security was high police report no problems. other cities from orlando to seattle celebrated the start of 2010 with fireworks. flight 253 bombing suspect umar farouk abdulmutallab has stopped talking to investigators. sources say he has admitted talking to anwr al awlaki an american-born imam in yemen with terror ties. homeland security officials are still studying how they failed to keep abdulmutallab off that plane. security lapsed surrounding flight 253 is expected to be president obama's at the top of his agenda next week when he returns to washington from vacation. mr. obama is viewing preliminary
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reports on ways to fix failures. charges against five plaquewater security guards accused of killing 14 iraqi civilians have been dropped. the federal judge cited repeated missteps by the justice department. and the 121st tournament of roses parade gets under way today. volunteers were busy all night putting the finishing touches on the spectacular flower covered coats. checking tooled's weather, snow showers will be scattered across interior sections of the northeast. new england will see heavy snow and howling winds over the weekend, and it will be blustery across the plains and the upper midwest. now here's an early look at what's going on in your area.
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>> and that's a look at your latest weather. now back to harry. this past year was historic. it was america's first year with an african-american president. last january, as barack obama was sworn in we went down to the national mall in washington to meet some of the people who wanted to see this moment in history for themselves. ♪ politics and patriotism and the presidency. it is the place where the secular and the religious merge, and one of the sacraments of our national religion is the inauguration. ♪ my country 'tis of thee sweet
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land of liberty ♪ >> reporter: so it was as many as 2 million pilgrims made their way to washington and the mall to witness this most sacred event. ♪ land where my father died ♪ >> reporter: as the oath was recited, alleges the speech was delivered. >> the time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit. >> reporter: emotions were laid bare. tears were shed. >> no matter how optimistic i've ever been as a human being i never thought this moment would come and i met these wonderful people total strangers and we can all share it together. >> reporter: inauguration is a renewal of faith. >> for we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness. >> reporter: a confirmation that the republic and our belief in it endures. these pictures were taken by reggie huff a cbs cameraman for
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30 years an old friend and a son of the south. >> i used to see the cross burn up on the hill and actually seeing seeing hatred then and love now it's wonderful. >> god bless. god bless the united states of america. >> wow. hard to remove yourself as a newsperson from the emotions and the history of that day, but standing all the way down there at the lincoln memorial with reggie and with other folks that we had never met before it was profound. it was as profound a moment as i have ever experienced in this field. >> if you don't mind me saying this, you got emotional watching it. >> yeah just watching it. i was able to go as a citizen. many of us came to town i get emotional thinking about it. i came from parents who had to go to n many cases segregated
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schools. my integrated the university i eventually attended. it's hard to separate the emotion. >> my parents, the things they went through, things my grandparents went through, on that day, it was an african-american being sworn in as president of the united states. >> um-hum. >> you were sitting in that crowd, and you looked around and you saw people who had made it in wheelchairs and walkers, on this bitter cold day, the young, the old, every race and creed and sexual orientation, and on that day, you felt this overwhelming sense of hope and promise, and i think it didn't matter what party you were a member of. it was the fact that this is a day when america came together and celebrated something historic. >> yes. >> on the other hand it didn't last long. >> no. >> it was short. >> the honeymoon was very short. >> the hope and high expectations of inauguration day had built up over two years of presidential campaigning.
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as we prepared for the inauguration we spent some time with one young photojournalist who was with the obama campaign every step of the way. ♪ >> thank you. >> reporter: scout photographs are part of history now, and so is her last name. >> mean sop of a gun. >> reporter: really? >> in armenian. >> reporter: in armenian. she started covering her career covering the gaza strip. is this the camera? >> yes, this is my baby. >> reporter: next an assignment for a barack obama book signing in december 2006 in new hampshire. >> i drove up there, and i just i thought it was going to be so boring. >> reporter: senator obama wasn't even a candidate then. >> i didn't know anything about this stuff. >> reporter: even though thousands of her photographs were eventually published in newspapers and magazines, most of the time she had to pay her own way. >> these are my maxed out credit
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cards, the three i paid off two of them. >> reporter: two years and some 1 million photographs later, her first book "yes we can." she was the only independent photo journalist to cover the obama campaign from start to finish. and have you ever met anybody like him before? >> no. you can be so sick of him, and having heard the same speech tired, haven't slept and haven't seen my boyfriend in six weeks and haven't had a decent cranky, and he smiles at you and knocks you over. for people years from now i want them to see, this is what this moment in history was like. this is how it felt. this is how i thought. >> are it says june 3rd, 2008 nomination is his. >> this is the day that he said "i am the democratic nominee for president of the united states." this woman would not let him go. >> righteporter: >>. >> reporter: right. >> they thought this guy is
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going to be president, change my life, and my kid's life he's going to change the country. >> reporter: do you have a favorite picture in. >> my girls from south carolina saw him and went completely insane. i love them. >> reporter: tufanjian was most impressed by obama's discipline but also saw another side. here's one. >> this is right after pennsylvania, after they had him doing all of the -- >> reporter: bowling and drinking beer. >> the pbr. >> did you see him drink martinis? >> in berlin. >> reporter: as somebody who was there, so much of two years, what was his response to you? >> he treated me like an annoying younger relative. he would grab my hand and shake my camera during a rope like scout, you're distracting me! >> do you ever feel like you'll be able to get that close again? >> no. definitely not. >> reporter: sometimes
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tufankjian and obama were alone at campaign events. now they both have plenty of company. i remember that book was in every single book store in the country. they couldn't print them fast enough. >> talk about a front row seat to history. >> great story. >> colorful how colorful a photograph can be. you look we were just talking about choking up during some of that video, you look at those girls who were awestruck by this candidate, and it makes you, it makes your throat fill. >> it captures just that moment in time, and you can embellish what else was going on. >> she was saying the early campaign events they were the only ones there, there weren't many people there at all. that changed quickly, though. >> we were in a couple of places in iowa there were several dozen and wow, quite a story. >> really really neat. good for her. still to come this morning, some of the friends of sully tell us how their lives have changed since they survived the miracle of the hudson. this is "the early show" on cbs.
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♪ two weeks from today january 15th, is the first anniversary of the miracle on the hudson when captain chesley sullenberger ditched u.s. air flight 1549 with both engines out in the hudson river, saving 155 lives. not long ago we talked with four of those survivors about that day, and how their lives have changed since then.
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>> when that boom hit the plane. >> what was that? what was that? >> which runway would you like at teterboro? >> we're going to be in the hudson. >> i yelled out to my dad, who is my guardian angel and i said "dad can you help us here?" and when we hit, i really felt like there were hands under the plane. it had just stopped us from perishing. one day someone came in my office and said "so how are you doing?" and i said "you know i'm struggling with this thing in the pit of my stomach, i can't find peace in there. i can't find my happy place," and he said "well you should go somewhere happy like the happiest place on earth," and i said disney world. i got to spend three days just screaming my head off and i got rid of that. i got rid of the hysteria and you know what? no one knew. everyone was screaming and no
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one knew that my screams were coming from a completely different place. i had just moved i. >> i had just moved to charlotte a month earlier and i think wow, i am going to die alone. >> actually i noticed her in the airport, and i thought, well maybe she's on my flight and then when i boarded, i got a book i was starting reading the book and there she was coming down the aisle. hopefully she'll sit beside me. like always she sits somewhere else and typically i would probably never see her again. >> we officially met at our six-month anniversary party. one of the other passengers had said, hey, good to see you, laura. have you met ben? we hugged each other. we hug each other like we've known each other for 20 years. ♪ i think it was probably the second time that we hung out, we danced and then it's been every single day that we hang out, we do that that's kind of or ritual to play some songs.
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>> no matter where we're at no matter whatter' doing we always end up dancing somewhere. >> when you go through something like that you can't help but kind of re-examine everything in your life. one of the things that became apparent was that the relationship with my family my parents and my sister she's my only sibling, we're very close, however, we weren't always very good at articulating that. we had a long talk. we talked about what might have been had i not survived. the irony was that she passed away in june very unexpectedly of a massive brain aneurysm. my parents had thought they had lost one daughter only to lose the other within six months almost to the day. i did have a chance to tell captain sullenberger this recently. i told him that he gave us a gift that day. >> for me it really starts with just extreme gratitude, and i could tell sully, thank you every day for the rest of my life. obviously very grateful for you
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know meeting her. >> when you say i'm really happy to be here, i really mean it. >> you know we call a lot of people heroes. >> um-hum. >> but captain sully i think is the definition of one. >> i feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet him now, several times. i've had some really good conversations with him, and i love what he says about himself. he said "it was as if he had spent his entire life preparing for that one moment." he used everything that he prepared for, and he is the last person in the world who would ever consider himself a hero. >> call himself a hero. >> we get questions i'm sure you do too, off camera people say "what was that guest like?" i can't tell you how many people have asked, was sully just like he came across on television? >> um-hum. >> and he is. he is just that man, which is why i think those passengers and
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so many americans who watch this story unfold feel so close to him. >> and in a year with bad economy and all kinds of other issues that sort of surround our lives, this was that story that said oh my gosh things can turn out for the right. >> a very cool guy to say the least. up next what is your new year's resolution? we're going to tell you some of ours, when we come back. >> uh-oh.
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my husband and i want what's bes ♪ that's a picture of times square. oh boy, a person or two saying -- >> where am? i. >> what year is it? >> look at all the pretty
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lights. >> have you ever done that? have you ever done the times square thing? >> yeah it's a one and done thing but it's a great experience, until you can't find a cab. >> one and done. >> something for 16 and 17-year-olds? >> no it's a fun experience. >> one time it's fun. >> when did you do it? >> in 2000 i was working but i was glad i was there, i got to experience it. >> you had access though. >> you know but still you can't get a cab when you leave. it's crazy crowded, it's cold all those things. >> cleanup. >> and the world did not come to an end. you were there and waiting for it. >> we had live trucks ready. >> reset all of his computers. >> y2k. >> water, the whole thing. >> it's probably happening now, that's when the glitch is probably the 2-0-1-0, not the 2-0-0-0. >> i think the best place is on the couch watching on television. we havave so much more ahead.
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your local news is next. hello again and happy new year. off to what could be a nice day eventually. eyewitness news has weather, marty. >> look at the forecast for day. it's a clear day's start. more clouds than sun and a high of 43 degrees. it's going to be a fairly nice night. 28 partly cloudy, breezy. tomorrow going to be a windy day, partly cloudy. the run of cold lingers through midweek next week with temperatures in the low to mid 30s. we continue to follow breaking news. police looking for a man behind a shooting inside a crowded new
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year's eve party. live with handover. it's a new year's eve party hosted at the hotel in their lounge. shots were fired and one man was shot and another stabbed. police interviewed dozens. they are looking at surveillance video. the victims from the area are expected to survive. they are at shock trauma and there's been no violent incidents in the past. thank you. what would the new year be without fireworks? the sty lit up as thousands rang in 2010. the incredible light show featured the pyrodome. organizers plans it for several months. it was a smashing success. a 73-year-old man with dementia is back home after being found safe in whitemarsh.
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they feared he was abducted, he drove in his daughter's car after he left it running. baltimore native travis sets a world record and jumped his car over 26 9- foot jump at rainbow harbor. he was not hurt. he took a nice chilly dip in the water. stay with wjz, maryland's news station, go out and make it a great new year's day. we'll be right back every 25 minutes with updates on the weather and your news. stay with us for the latest on wjz.com. happy new year.
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♪ welcome bk to earlthe "early" show on this new year's day 2010. we pay special attention to a pair of very important people who passed away this year. >> of course walter cronkite was especially important to all of us. we'll show you the many highlights of his long career at cbs news when he became the most trusted man in america. and of course we also remember michael jackson, his 13 number one hits make up just a tiny portion of his legacy.
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we'll bring you some of the sites and sounds from his long career. first, though we want to return to an important anniversary that we celebrated this past summer. if you were around 40 years ago to see it you will never forget t the day that men from earth walked on the moon for the first time. it had always been a dream, but in 1961 it became a mission. >> i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. >> reporter: eight years later. >> good morning, it's "t" minus 1 hour 29 minutes and 53 seconds and counting. >> three, two, one, zero. all engines running. liftoff, we have a liftoff. >> reporter: four days and a quarter of a million miles later -- >> hello, eagle houston, we're standing by over. >> reporter: the night of july
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20th, 1969. >> the eagle has landed. >> reporter: leaving men and women across the country speechless. >> woo, boy. >> reporter: just before 11:00 p.m. eastern time. >> on the moon neil armstrong, american standing on the surface of the moon. >> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. >> there it is a u.s. flag on the surface of the moon. >> reporter: the astronauts returned to earth as heroes. ♪ and a nation was reminded that in spite of great challenges even the heavens were within reach. >> we now know we're not invincible and there are limits to our greatness, but at that shining moment in 1969 anything seemed possible for america. >> boy. i remember being at my brother's house, and we sat in the little
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family room watching the tv coke and peanuts and, oh! it's fantastic. >> in the basement at home in rock hill, missouri. my father worked for mcdonald douglas which built some of the parts for the saturn 5 rocket so he had a big smile on his face from ear to ear. >> i'll bet. i'll bet. >> where were you, dave? >> where was i?a diaper in the kitchen being held from the rest of my family. >> things never change. >> no. what's amazing all these years later there's this quest now to maybe go back to the moon with a manned space mission, to go to mars somehow with a space mission. funding, of course the big question. let's take a check of the weather and look up at the heavens right now and see what's happening, shall we? all right, at this hour come on you don't care about the weather. you're too tired. you're not
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and that's a quick look at your weather picture on this new year's day. >> all righty. up next on new year's day we remember walter cronkite, the way he was. this is the "early" show on cbs.
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?p@ññ ♪ 2009 was a sad year for us
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at cbs news. it was the year walter cronkite passed away. a long time anchor of the "cbs evening news" was not just a great reporter and tv news legend, he was a witness to history. >> and that's the way it is. that's the way it is. and that's the way it is. >> reporter: walter cronkite was the most trusted man in america. >> good evening from paris. reporting from moscow. from the great wall of china. reporting from madrid. this is walter cronkite aboard the papal aircraft somewhere over the north atlantic. >> reporter: in a career that helped define a medium. >> here we are again in studio a. >> reporter: cronkite anchored america's first national television broadcast of a presidential convention in 1952. >> this is the way it always is on these election nights, isn't it in it? >> reporter: and in 1936 it was walter cronkite who inaugurated the evening news as we know it today. >> the first broadcast of
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network television first daily half-hour program. >> reporter: cronkite broke the news and set the tone for some of the most important events of his time. >> president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time 2:00 eastern standard time some 38 minutes ago. >> reporter: from the civil rights era. >> they're chanting "we want jobs." >> reporter: to the vietnam war. >> they came closer here than anywhere else. >> reporter: cronkite was a witness. >> it is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate not as victims but as an honorable people. >> reporter: after cronkite's words, president johnson was reported to have said "if i've lost cronkite i've lost middle america."
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>> most what have is known of the watergate affair has emerged in puzzling bits and pieces. >> reporter: walter cronkite helped decipher the now infamous break-in that ended richard nixon's presidency. >> i shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. >> to a pure man survival in the hostile environment of outer space. >> reporter: and it was cronkite to who captured the spirit of vd venture as america entered into space. >> look at the rocket go into the clouds at 3,000 feet. man on the moon ooh, boy. woo, boy. >> got me dizzy for a minute. >> reporter: reporting on presidents wars and icons of popular culture, walter cronkite had a front row seat. >> how is it going? what's up? >> reporter: all that news became our history. >> that's the way it is.
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>> and to have been the anchor of the evening news through those decades, and decades of tremendous social unrest and change and war, i kept thinking about him as we were remembering him this summer and my favorite image of him is when he was sailing out off of martha's vineyard and the thing about walter cronkite was he kept an even keel through all of those, you know dangerous shows and everything else that could have befallen us he was the one who could keep it steady as she goes. >> my favorite cronkite moment the day that jfk, sorry, not jfk, lyndon johnson passed away happened while the evening news was on the air, they come out of a break, walter cronkite's on the phone, looks at the camera likes this and says "hold on just for a second." he's getting information from johnson's press secretary, the former president had passed away he's relaying this to
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people in natural even keel sort of way. >> absolutely but his humanity always showed through. we're supposed to be impassive, you know almost unemotional observers of life but he conveyed the emotion that everybody else was feeling and remained the ultimate professional at the same time. >> i remember those were the days when it was abc, nbc and cbs, and at 6:30 we were all in front of the television screen. >> all right, there will not be another one like him. up next another tremendous talent died this year. we remember the musical genius of michael jackson. this is the "early" show. it's holiday time, and no fruit is as versatile as our ocean spray cranberries. you can decorate with them bake with them even make holiday drinks like our cranberry punch we call the festive sparkler. mm! festive. for all these reasons, we declare the ocean spray cranberry...
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the death of michael jackson was easily the most unexpected big news story of the past year. six months later the mystery is still being unraveled. this morning we want to remember jackson's talent and ambition. it changed pop music forever. ♪ oh baby give me one more chance ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the world was first introduced to the sweet sound of jackson's voice in the late 1960s, with his four brothers with hits like "abc," as"i'll be there" and "who's loving you." >> he was this value beganized young performer, this 12-year-old kid indicating across the floor with this voice. ♪ don't stop 'til you get enough ♪ >> reporter: jackson introduced us to the motown legacy. ♪ i want to rock with you ♪ >> reporter: if there was any
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question of jackson's talent 1979's "off the wall" sealed the deal. >> he was suddenly this young adult in full command of his talent it was sleek. he was aware of things like disco, it was aware of the history of black popular music but at the same time it seemed immediate and contemporary and fun. ♪ people always told me be careful what you do ♪ ♪ don't go around breaking young girls' hearts ♪ ♪ don't break those hearts ♪ >> reporter: in 1928 jackson released "thriller" which made him the king of pop. >> you know its impact was total. it made michael a superstar on a scale that really almost no one else has ever experienced. ♪ just beat it beat it no one wants to feel defeated ♪ ♪ cause this is thriller thriller night ♪ >> reporter: "thriller" revolutionized music video, taking the art craft to dramatic new heights. ♪ thriller night ♪
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>> michael was one of the first artists to really take video seriously. he took his videos as seriously as he took the music that he was putting on his album. ♪ cause i'm bad, i'm bad ♪ >> reporter: in 1987 "bad" produced more unforgettable hits including "man in the mirror" and "smooth criminal." jackson's passing will surely bring a new generation of fans to his music. for others this moment will be a chance to remember why michael jackson is the king of pop. ♪ killer, thriller, ow ♪ >> we were all talking about the movie that subsequently was made after his death of all of this footage that was shot in the rehearseals that were in preparation for this big concert tour he was about to go on. >> yes. >> you all saw it. >> he was so laser focused, knew exactly what he wanted a ware of everything happening, the music, the lights the everything. >> you're trying to process how
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you can be like that prepare for this tour and be addicted to the medications that he allegedly was, and then be dead in a snap. >> because some of this video was taken days before he passed away and i had the same questions. how could he be that focused, that instinctive if he's in this cloud. >> and the other thing is we can set his personal issues aside for a moment and talk about his music. you watch that and you realize this was a brilliant musician.. >> and how does he end up dead? >> yeah. >> we'll be right back. you're watching the "early" show on cbs. [ male radio dj ] morning's not your thing? this'll brighten you up! ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] metamucil with psyllium fiber supports your health in 4 ways. it helps your natural cleansing process. helps lower cholesterol. promotes overall well-being. and provides a good source of natural fiber. that's metamucil's 4 ways to invigorate your insides so the vitality shows on the outside.
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30s, enjoy the 40. shots ring out in a crowded new year's eve party. staying on the story. we're told it was a new year's eve party hosted in the lounge. police got a call at midnight that shots were fired. one man shot, another one stabbed. police interviewed dozens of witnesses. they don't know what cause the altercation but looking at surveillance video. the victims expected to survive. they're at shock trauma and there's been no violent incidents in the past. a man convict of starting a fire that killed two young girls will not see the first day of 2010. he was found dead inside his cell. investigators suspect he was kill by another inmate. he set a fire that kill his
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girlfriend's two teenager daughters. people in annapolis, furloughs designed to decrease the deficit. not a single wedding performed there. officials expect the next business day january 4th to be busy. major dixon will want to sleep in. she was out late helping usher in the new decade. the sky lit up as thousands rang in 2010. the incredible light show featured something new, the one of a kind pyrodome. stay with wjz 13. we'll be right back. have a great day.
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♪ new year's day 2010. 122010 or 20-10? >> i got tired of saying 2001 2005. i'm glad to say 20-10 >> i'm with you. takes too long. >> happy new year and welcome back to the "early" show on january 1st, 2010. i'm harry smith along with dr. debbye turner bell and russ mitchell. >> people who volunteer in their
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communities and make a huge difference. we call them "early's angels" and we'll take another look at the important work that they do. >> another one of my favorite moments from 2009 i can say that now although i probably wouldn't have said it then as i rolled down a hill at 35 miles an hour in a ball called the plastic gore be. people pay to do this. we'll show thaw seernsyou that experience in a few minutes. >> of all of your experiences that was my favorite. >> it was a lot of fun to do. >> the screaming made it sound like a lot of fun. >> it showcased my manliness. >> first let's go to the news desk and get another look at the headlines on this knew year's morning. >> good morning i'm seth jones. america is waking up to 2010 after a trouble-free new year's eve. hundreds of thousands of people partied under tight security in new york's times square. other cities held their own massive celebrations and in hawaii president obama offered his wishes for the new year.
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>> and while 2009 was difficult for so many americans, we must also look back on this year with the knowledge that brighter days are head of us that although our challenges are great, each of us has the courage and determination to rise up and meet them. >> security questions are being raised following the suicide bombing deaths of seven cia employees in afghanistan. an afghan being courted as a cia operative was invited to the base wednesday without being searched. he then detonated his suicide vest. this morning iran's opposition leader says he's not afraid to die fighting for people's rights. mir hossein mousavi lashed out following a deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters sunday. at least eight people died including mousavi's nephew. and a last-minute reprieve for fox tv viewers in 13 million homes. a threatened midnight blackout of the fox broadcast signal was avoided when fox and time warner cable agreed to a brief extension of their current
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contract. talks over fees continue. and now a check of today's weather. snow showers will be scattered across interior sections of the
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>> and tt's a look at your latest weather. now here's dave. this past year we met some extraordinary people that we called "early's angels." people who gave their time and inspiration to help their communities. one of them is a high school dean in los angeles, who just wanted his students to head outdoors. >> all right, let's go. the weather day is perfect for hiking. >> reporter: most members of the high school eco club had never seen nature up close until their first hike with bill vanderburg. >> i had no idea what a forest looked like except in a picture or a book. it's really hard for people to imagine that. >> reporter: the club's members live in and around one of the toughest neighborhoods in south l.a. >> there are a lot of speeding cars running up and down the street there are fights. a loft times feels and sounds more like a war zone than a community. >> reporter: it's an unsafe environment that often extends straight to the classroom.
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>> there was always a lockdown. there's always someone getting caught with some knife. >> i could not imagine coming to school and dealing with that stress every day of getting beat up or getting robbed coming to or from school. >> reporter: so bill vanderberg dean of students at crenshaw high school took it upon himself to give his students an escape. >> there's no safe place to play outside in the community. i started becoming involved because i simply wanted kids to go out and play and do things every child has a right to do. all of the trails in the park were built by boy scouts sierra club volunteers. >> reporter: in vanderberg organized the eco club takes students regardless of grade point average or disciplinary issues, on yearly backpacks trips to yosemite. >> i never thousand say yosemite. i thought it was co-sem-ite.
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>> the students have a chance to experience the wider world. >> reporter: taken gives them the chance to learn and grow as well. >> i was in ninth grade, doing some stuff i wasn't supposed to i was doing, you know some vandalism. >> reporter: leo morrison first met mr. vanderberg during one of his many suspensions. bill decided to give him a second chance. >> i found out people in the eco club doing the same things as i and helped me turn around. >> in the three years he's become the eco club president, on the honor role, truly a different person. >> reporter: leo will go to college in the fall and plans to become a park ranger. >> i was one of the first people to go to yosemite. >> reporter: like leerow cynthia rivas had a profound experience. >> at the time we went to yosemite she was a senior with no interesting tr going to college. had never experienced wilderness. >> reporter: the eco club sparked an interest in her she
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never knew existed. she went on to berkeley to double major in conservation resource studies in forestry and hopes to get her masters in environmental management at yale. >> if it weren't for the club i don't think i'd be here. >> reporter: every student who crosses bill's path emerges with something, whether it's a few well-earned blisters a new experience or new outlook on life. >> opens up a lot of doors for the students, very very positive. >> he was always a person who was pushing to you do something, he's like come on, you can do better. >> i love vanderberg somebody i can trust, somebody i can go to to talk to. i really appreciate him for who he is and what he's done. >> reporter: but for bill vanderberg he's fulfilling the boy scout motto he is recycling do a good deed daily. >> it would be selfish on my part not to share who i am and what i can do. >> how do you change the world? one person at a time. >> wonderful guy. >> absolutely.
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>> good story, those kids' lives changed so profoundly and i just think the other thing about it is that's a neighborhood where you just think nothing good is going on. >> yes. >> right, but it thakz that oneakes that onone. >> if you're driving through, nothing is going on there. you have to stop and look. >> yep. we have more of our "early angels" coming up including a woman who comes to the rescue of some very special animals. you're watching the the "early" show on cbs. my bliss? really soft, really smooth lips. my blistex new lip massage. the soft tip smoothes away rough spots as emollients moisturize and protect. my lips feel amazing. discover bliss. discover blistex. [ female announcer ] when you're depressed, where do you want to go?
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♪ this time of year many people decide to adopt pets but
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there's one woman from nyack, new york who spends her entire year helping animals in need find a good home and at age 65, she's just getting started. ♪ long, beautiful hair ♪ >> reporter: for these pampered pooches a dog's life has never looked so good. ♪ show the length longer ♪ >> some of the dogs love it. they come in and jump on my table. some don't. >> reporter: dapper dog owner gerri tartaglione, many come to her to look their best and many more relied on them to find their pet a home. >> i started taking in an animal here and there and it escalated. dapper dogs. he eats drinks sleeps dogs and rescues. >> it's a little pick. >> like an and zwroel everybody. >> this guy was found with his real leg hanging.
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>> reporter: a few adoptions soon became too numb russ to count. >> she's had to rescue about 20,000 dogs in the years that i know him. >> every dog has a sad, little story and now they've got a very happy life. >> it's hard for him to balance. >> she's a guardian of animals. >> reporter: animal lover and academy award winner ellen burstyn adopted her dog, zoe, from gerri. >> we all go to her when we have room in our lives for another pet. >> reporter: when hurricane katrina stranded animals on the gulf coast, burstyn funded gerri's efforts to save as many as she could. >> there were dogs that would be destroyed, who had just gotten either abandoned or separated from their families. >> reporter: all of the katrina dogs rescued by gerri, more than 80 of them, found a home. but each week more arrived. a team of volunteers, including gerri's husband, nick and their children helped bathe, feed and
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care for each new arrival, funded mostly on their own and a collection jar. >> some of them don't charge me interest some of them do. >> reporter: and like so many of the animals who have come to her, gerri has also faced great adversity and beaten the odds. >> i was so into this in saving everything when i started, that i didn't go to the doctor even with a lump. >> all through recovering from breast cancer, no hair in a bandana, groomed the dogs rescued animals and i think it's the piece that saved her. >> i was more thankful to god that i survived and i would continue doing what i was doing. >> reporter: and she's continuing in a big way. >> it's quite hard. everybody's on everybody's back. >> reporter: gerry's rescue operation is moving into a bigger space which will house hopeful tails. >> it will be a lot easier over there for us and i'll be able to help even more animals.
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♪ calling all angels ♪ >> reporter: hopeful tails is a nonprofit organization that will ease gerry's own financial burden and allow her to help care for more animals while they await adoption. >> you got the food, got the crate. >> i'm 65 i get up in the morning, thank god every morning i get up and as long as he's able to let me do, i'm doing. this is my passion. thank you very much. thanks for adopting. bye girl. ♪ >> a lot of good work there, absolutely. 10 million pets and shelters half get euthanized so that little bit helps a lot. >> i remember the day we actually told her that we had built her new facility she got out of her car and saw us there and she was, oh, my goodness this is fantastic. >> it was a great day. >> good for her. up next the "early angel hit the road" to bring youngsters the gift of reading. we'll be right back.
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♪ so listen dear won't you meet me here while bringing in a brand new year ♪ we were looking back at our extraordinary group of "early's angels." maggie rodriguez first introduced us to jennifer francis, making the lives of youngsters in tampa, florida, better one book at a time. >> yeah! >> don't let the pigeon drive the bus. all right. he's going to try, you know he is. >> reporter: for 38-year-old jennifer francis there's nothing like seeing the joy and excitement of a child. >> oh of a got a great idea. >> reporter: especially when it comes from reading. >> yeah!
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>> reporter: jennifer is the voice and founder of bess the book bus, a nonprofit literacy program that provides free books to kids. >> i'm going to leave this with you so you can open all the little pockets. >> reporter: what do you hope you're doing for these kids? >> i hope that we are creating enthusiasm for reading and the reading experience. i really really believe in the power of books and the power of storytelling. ♪ >> reporter: in schools like tampa's west shore elementary jennifer and beth have made a big difference. >> that's a good one. because if we can break that cycle ofily literacy and poverty that's key, that's just key. >> reporter: jennifer's mission began seven years ago unfill filled in her job as an apartment complex manager, she got the inspiration while writing in her journal. >> so this is the first picture i drew of the book bus and what can i do to make things better. >> reporter: it was a
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life-changing and self-less decision. she cashed in her 401(k) to buy a 1972 volkswagen bus, the very first bess. why bess the book bus? >> bess was my maternal grandmother, and to me she was nana and nana was one of the very first people to ever get me involved and interested and excited about reading. >> reporter: jennifer's now on her third bess. every year she gives away more than 40,000 new books to inner city kids. >> that's funny, emily's first 100 days of school. let me see yours. >> reporter: but relying on government grants and corporate sponsorships to keep the bus going has been a struggle. >> this year because of the financial situation, there's so much more competition for resources, we did run out of books. what's this animal? >> reporter: and disappointing the kids is not an option. >> it means a lot to me because i don't have books at home to
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read and i was dying for this "twirk light" book. >> reporter: tell me about what's fun about miss genjen? >> she gives us free books. >> reporter: what do you want to say to miss jen? >> i love her and i love these books. >> reporter: which is exactly what keeps jennifer motivated to keep bess going for many more miles, and this summer she's bringing the joy of reading to young readers all over the country. >> this has been such a gift to me to be able to do this with my life. i realize now that it's also a responsibility of mine because these kids do expect and do depend on this. >> loved that and when she came to the plaza, with the bus and the kids it was really great. really great. >> bess the book bus. >> your favorite book as a kid, you guys remember? >> as a young kid i don't remember but i remember "mrs.
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purcell my third grade teacher reading from us "to kill a mockingbird" and that's one of my all-time favorite books. >> how about you russ? >> pretty sophisticated. >> we were smart kids. >> i loved the "cat in the hat" books. i wasn't sophisticated as debbye obviously. >> i can't put my finger on a particular book. hmm. hmm. i just remember as kids though you were put in categories birds, right, you were a robin or blue bird depending on how good a reader you were. >> yeah. >> what were you? >> black crow. >> you liked those dark novels. >> how about you, david? >> i as a youngster i read "good-bye columbus." still to come on this new year's day, me and the zorb, taking one of the wildest rides you can imagine with incredible gas mileage. stick around. and we'll visit with
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good morning, again, happy new year, for all of your drivers, police say there's been several car crashes on the roads this morning. they're urging drivers to use caution. >> we've got a pretty god day start of a good amount of sunshine that goes to a more cloudy state later on. i walk out a few minutes ago, on the rail going down the steps, it felt like there was a little bit of ice, i could see that occurring around the area. looking at the forecast, 43 degrees, a pleasant day. more clouds than sun. right now at about 32 degrees.
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breezy 28 degrees overnight. tomorrow and the next five days in the mid-30s and get windy. a night of celebration ends in gunfire. this is a new year's eve party hosted by the aloft hotel in their lounge. shots were fired, one man shot, another stabbed. police have interviewed dozens of witnesses but no one is in custody. they are looking at surveillance video. they are at shot trauma. thank you. a happy ending for the loved ones of a 73-year-old who went missing. he was found safe at franklin square hospital in whitemarsh.
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they suffered the man was abducted, he drove off if his daughter's car. a former rotc instructor facing charges. police say he's accused of abusing a 15-year-old girl during a fundraiser. 2010 started with a bang last night in the inner harbor. thousands of people downtown and many watching at home treated to a light show. among the new features, the pyrodome. it ended up being a smashing success. baltimore native kicks off the new year by setting a world record. he jumped over 269-foot jump at rainbow harbor this morning.
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♪ i think i'm going with 2010. >> 20-10 harry. >> doesn't it feel like it sometimes? >> repeat after me 20-10. >> 2010. welcome back to the "early" show. happy new year, everybody. this past year a couple myself colleagues made their prime time tv debuts. so coming up we're going to see dave's appearance on "csi: miami" as a murder victim as well as russ's guest shot on "the good wife" playing a correspondent, get this in the
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ultimate career stretch, named russ mitchell. >> wow. >> it was something. >> how did you research for that? >> well you know i'll explain to you someday. >> okay. >> by the way my working as a "csi: miami" stuntman not even close to the most dangerous thing i did this year a long list of those things. we'll look back at my unbelievable ride inside a gorezorb and if you don't know what a zorb is you're about to find out. first a check of the weather and all across the country on this first day of 2010, whatever you call t hopefully you're seeing decent conditions as you look out the wall -- the wall? >> the window. >> the window? >> well i'll tell you what -- >> you're superman if you can look out the wall. >> let me tell you about my new year's it was really something else. in fact it was so good i don't even know what camera to look at right now, but keep in mind we hope you have a decent weather to start off this new year. that's a quick look
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good morning, looking at the forecast for the day. i understand temperatures right now around 33 degrees. getting some reports of a couple slick spots on the roads. a bit of a refreeze. sun n is out, going to get cloudier. 43 is the high. tonight 28, partly cloudy, going to get breezy and windy tomorrow. we're going to start off on the chilly side. >> that's a quick look at your weather picture. you know we had a lot of fun this year with our name in lights series. we all had to take on different entertainment jobs and i was invited to the set of "csi: miami" to be a stuntman. first they taught me how to die on tv as if i didn't already have that talent. >> down-pat. ♪ >> reporter: you know what happens on "csi: miami" when you
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watch it on tv. now we're going to show you what happens behind the scenes, as justice gets served. being a stuntman is not all about air punches and taking dives. i might have the living daylights kicked out of me. the good news is phil coolatta a great hollywood stuntman is going to be teaching this. if nothing else i'm going to look good before i die. how i do think i'm going to do at it? i think i'm going to come across as a sissy girl. oh! yeah i think that about sums it up, sissy girl. so i'm about to get shot after the fight scene, and this squibb in n here is going to create a small explosion and blast a hole through the shirt. don't do this! oh. so that's how it's all done.
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it takes a second and a half to film the whole thing, but there's so much planning for that one little bit we see on television, and of course the great acting was -- ♪ so i sat down in the makeup chair. i feel fine but i'm starting to feel a little pale. and we put on all my injuries and then began to make me look dead. you know you have a bad nose when they're fixing it with a spatula. then we came in here. this is the autopsy room. oh it's cold. if you didn't know better you'd swear you're about to be cut open for an autopsy. >> and now you're dead. >> reporter: i guess the high point of the day was the scene i shared with jonathan togo. >> this man is jiggling like jell-o. it's a postmortem seizure. a dead man.
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>> reporter: this is emotional. >> you're laughing already. >> reporter: i'm bad. i killed. >> i'm going to resuscitate, i'm going to try. >> reporter: all right. now believe it or not, i learned all that in just one day, and you're saying to yourself he's a remarkable actor. how did he do it? what did the end product look like? well the reward what did the end product look like, you're probably saying. >> what did the end product look like? >> i'm glad you asked. my reward at the end of the day was my very own "csi: miami" plot complete with a morning show mystery. ♪ ♪
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♪ >> oh! oh! >> hey, man! >> come on! come on! >> who sent you? who sent you? >> i'm not done with you! >> you think harry did this? why would harry try and kill me? >> well there is that little matter of his lawsuit against you. >> well what about russ? he's been doing weather and i think he's trying to take my job. >> he isn't anymore.
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>> no. no! no! neither of them would try and kill me. >> then why don't you tell me who did? >> i don't know. i don't know why would a co-worker try and take down the weatherman? why? who sent you? what are you doing? >> figured it out yet? >> don't do it! oh! >> i got to tell you the main suspect for me was harry smith, but we found a hair on the body and that man is super bald. we'll figure it out one way or another. >> intense. >> yeah. >> man. >> woo. >> whoa. >> did we run out of money for
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the sequel? >> yeah that's where the budget really ends right there. >> right there on the screen. >> bruk heimer is having a new year's day beverage. >> we dodged a bullet on that one. >> i smell spin-off. >> and an emmy. >> without a doubt. >> you were good you were good especially the first of the two pieces the bravery that you showed by going on screen without a shirt on. >> oh. >> was -- >> yeah. >> to be honest -- >> remarkable. >> especially after having two kids for me it was a bold move. >> did you have fun, david? >> you know what? i had a ball. it's one thing to step in and do it for a day. it's another thing to realize we have no sense of how hard and moum hours of detail work goes into that quick half hour or hour we see on television. >> i know those fight scenes were choreographed, but it looked like you actually got
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thrown around a little bit. did you get hurt at all? >> you know what if you have tivo or recorder wind it back carefully, because at one point in the fight scene, i push him away i take a dive under a table, stunt devil comes out, they continue to fight, i roll to the end of the sequence a blood pack explodes in my face and that's how it's done. >> i'll be doing that as soon as i get home. >> there we go. >> let's get this straight, dave is not the only one of us to appear on prime time tv this past year. not long ago i made a guest appearance on the cbs drama "the good wife" with julianna marguil marguiles playing a character i hope you'll recognize. welcome, they took a sharpie and wrote a name stick and will rip it off when i'm done. welcome to the set of "the good wife." >> action! >> here we go.
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>> are you still involved with prostitutes? >> i've never been the part of a big production like this and i'm looking forward to it. okay i'm going to sit down and go over my lines. i've got three whole lines here. my character today is a guy named russ mitchell. it's a bit of a stretch but i think i can come through. what would drive to you seek out prostitutes and jeopardize so much of your life and career? that's it. i'm going to makeup now. this could take awhile. ♪ hi. i got to be honest right here this is a nice spread but i expected like lobster and shrimp and, you know prime rib, the whole deal. next time i'm going to get in my rider, i want m&m's, only red. i think i'm ready, going to go back to the dressing room look at the script one more time and i think i'm good to go. see you.
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i have something else i've got to do today. says i got to do the nod. so i'm practicing that, too. it is finally time. i've been here for about three hours, did the rehearsal, everything's all set. time for my big screen. going in now. ♪ fame take things over ♪ >> i think he comes in first and i follow him. >> let's widen out. >> here we go, action! >> what drove you to seek prostitutes, when you know it could put your life and your career in so much danger? >> i'm a flawed human being, and i have paid the price. >> cut. >> cut it. >> i have a whole new respect for the folks who make television shows and movies. it's a lot of hard work a lot of hurry up and wait. you got to keep your energy level up. these guys work hard and you know what? i'm seeing it firsthand today. i had a scene with chris noth
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and he taught me a lot, told me to be calm just do this as if i was conducting an actual interview. the guy is cool. >> he made me feel like i was really in prison. he taught me i asked him a few things about how much twitching i should do. he said a lot of them twitch. if i ever get out of prison and run again for office i'm going to need guys like him on my side, so i'm greasing him. oh, we got to go. >> i don't believe russ mitchell could become a returning character on this show. i think they've had just about enough of him. ♪ fame what you like is in the limo ♪ >> as promised they did rip down the russ mitchell tag. >> you delivered that line what made you, what's made you -- >> seek out prostitutes when you know your career and your life could be in danger. >> sounds like you're interviewing a government official. >> wow. >> it's the d.a. in the show. >> i believed that you were russ mitchell. >> i've never seen anyone do a
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russ mitchell better. >> never. one of the things i remember this year and it was so much fun riding in the zorb. it's hard to describe so it's best to just show it to you. take a look. new zealand, the country that brought you bungy jumping, has a new but equally insane idea for how to have fun. it's called zorb sphere riding. >> we decided hey we've got to take this one definitely excellent adventure activity and bring it all the way to the u.s. >> reporter: you know what? i definitely i definitely don't want to do that. jean roberts works at zorb's first u.s. facility in pigeon forge, new jersey. what are these? >> these strings on the side here hold the two spheres apart. we fill it up with the air and protects you and you can ride down the hill safely in the
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globe. >> i had some breakfast before i got here. is that going to be a problem? now, there are two different ways to sphere ride. you can either be strapped into a harness, bounce from side to side and tumble head over heels. now that is screaming. >> that is laughing. >> reporter: or you can bounce down a hill at high speed in a sphere filled with water. how is it going? >> this specific gore be here is called a zydro zorb. we tuck you inside with water, zip you up throw you down the hill, like an extreme waterside. >> reporter: what's wrong with you. the zorblator takes the zorb sphere and brings it up the zorb hill and zorb top. with my zorb partially filled with water, i launched into the sphere. this is going to go really well. this reminds me when i was a
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kid, like amazing, i mean like in vitro. oh my god! well, while yelping like a school girl i had time to reflect going down the hill in a zydro zorb but yelping really describes it best. >> you got to come out, feet first. >> reporter: that is so wild! it is like dropping down everest inside a transparent pillow. everyone we met agreed it is an awesome experience. >> i was under the water for part of it and i was just like very dizzy. >> reporter: why you do it again? >> yeah, in a heartbeat. >> reporter: what advice can you give people who haven't done this before? >> scream and yell. >> reporter: oh man! for me that, wasn't a problem.
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ahh! oh, man! i'm taking it like a man! ahh! >> of all the crazy things was it fun? >> oh it's addictive. it was phenomenal. >> yeah? >> yeah it's so much fun to do. it's a little scary. >> how was the birth experience? >> well i was breached so it was a little tough. but it's really you're going pretty fast faster than it seems on this video, or at least it seemed that way when you're in it. >> anyway we can see a splitch more of that? >> the screaming was it a factor or really that scary? >> oh no it was really scary. i had a cameraman in there with me. that makes it scarier. you're tumbling on top of each other, rolling down the hill and you have no idea how to drive the thing. >> all right, dave. happy birthday. we'll be right back. well-said.
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♪ we got about a minute left. new year's resolutions anybody, you do them or not? >> not generally but you know what, this year i'm going to return e-mails do, a better job returning e-mails. >> that's good. >> if you look at the tape i probably said the same thing last year. >> dr. turner? >> after i give birth my resolution is to lose the weight get back in my old clothes. >> davey? >> try to be a more accurate forecaster. >> you did say that last areayear. >> yes and the year before and the year before that. >> you said it and it got the biggest laugh of the day. >> i don't know if that's funny, harry. i really don't know if that's funny. what's yours? >> what about you? >> i'm going back to yoga class. it's useful. i don't know why i said that. i need that. >> going to be more zen? >> supple. >> ahh.
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>> i don't want to think the name harry and the name and the word supple in the same sentence. >> i put on the turtle neck today. >> and it's working for but. >> oh yeah. >> i want to be supple in 2010. well before we go today, we just want to show you the names of everyone who makes the "early" show possible every single day of the year. have a great day today, a happy new year. your local news is next. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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hello again. police say there's been several car crashes on the roads this morning. use caution on exit ramps and bridges. for the latest let's go to marty. >> those ramps don't warm up as quickly as the road does. we're in the 30s. you could find some isolated patchy black ice. looking at the forecast, going for a high of 43 degrees. going to be a partly cloudy day. right now sunnier than most of the day. tomorrow and for the next five days in the low 30s partly cloudy and windy tomorrow.
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33, 34, 36, 36, nighttime temperatures in the teens to 20s. a person opened fire inside of a hotel on new year's eve. we stay top story. we're told this is the new year's eve party hosted in the lounge. police got a call at midnight that shots were fired. one man was shot. another was stabbed. police interviewed witnesses but no one is in custody. they're looking at surveillance video. the victims suspected to survive survive. a man convicted of starting a fire that killed two young girls will not see the first day of 2010. clarence myers found dead
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inside his cell. he was serving two life sentences for setting a house fire that kill his girlfriend's two teenage daughters. for people in annapolis, because of furloughs not a single wedding performed on thursday. officials expect their next business day to be very busy. don't be surprised if mayor dixon decides to sleep in this morning, she was out late helping the city usher in a new decade. it started with a bang last night. thousands of people downtown and many more watching it at home were treated to an incredible light show. the one of of a kind pyrodome. it ended up being a huge success. stay with wjz, maryland's news
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station. complete news and first-warning weather today at noon. happy new year everyone. have a great day.
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